How the Security Data Layer works

Retain years of full-fidelity security telemetry

Search years of security telemetry in seconds

Connect to the security tools you already use

Customer Story

“We wanted to know whether organizations really had to choose between affordability and effective investigations. Based on what we saw, the answer was yes: we could keep more data and still get analysts to root cause faster, all from inside the Splunk interface they already use.”

Daniele Ricci, Head of Strategic Consulting at RAD

RESULTS

20M

SECURITY EVENTS TESTED

~2 sec

LARGE-SCALE DETECTION QUERY

<2.3 sec

ACROSS ALL TEST VOLUMES

100%

SUCCESSFUL TEST RUNS

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    Best Practices
    Product

    Faster Splunk Dashboards With Hydrolix Summary Tables

    With Hydrolix summary tables, cut query scan volume by up to 99.6%, keeping Splunk dashboards fast without sampling or short retention windows.

    Franz

    Knupfer

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    Jun 30, 2026

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    Best Practices

    The Data Your Next Investigation Needs Is Being Deleted Right Now

    When an investigation points to CDN logs from six months ago, gaps in retention aren’t acceptable. Hydrolix Search for Splunk keeps high-volume telemetry hot and…

    Jeff

    Kelly

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    Jun 16, 2026

  • Use Cases

    Christophe Foulon: Why Hot Data Should Be Default for Security Teams

    When log data stays queryable for months or years, threat hunting, AI-powered detection, and compliance reporting don’t have to wait.

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    Apr 9, 2026

Is Hydrolix a SIEM replacement?

No. Hydrolix extends your SIEM, it doesn’t replace it. Hydrolix acts as the Security Data Layer beneath your existing stack, keeping full-fidelity telemetry hot, searchable, and cost-effective while your SIEM continues to handle detection, alerting, and security analytics.

How does Hydrolix work with Splunk?

Hydrolix extends Splunk with a Security Data Layer for long-term retention and historical search. Analysts continue using Splunk and standard SPL while Hydrolix keeps years of full-fidelity telemetry hot and searchable without changing existing investigation workflows.

What does “full-fidelity” mean in practice?

Full-fidelity means retaining complete security telemetry without sampling or dropping data to reduce storage costs. Investigators can search the complete historical record rather than discovering that the evidence they need was sampled, deleted, or moved somewhere difficult to access.

What data should we send to Hydrolix?

Hydrolix is designed for high-volume security telemetry that is expensive to retain in traditional SIEM infrastructure, including network, firewall, endpoint, cloud, identity, WAF, CDN, and API telemetry. Keep high-volume data in full for longer without sacrificing fast access when investigators need it.

Our analysts work within 30–90 day retention windows. What changes?

Their investigation workflow doesn’t have to change. Analysts continue using the security tools and query interfaces they know, but gain fast access to months or years of historical telemetry. Threats that span longer periods become easier to investigate without waiting for archived data to be restored.

Stop choosing between retention, performance, and cost.